Headlight



April 19', 1927.

. 1,625,246 G. W. DRAPER HEADLIGHT Filed April 6, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet l ATTORNEY WIINESS:

April 19, 192?.

G. W. DRAPER HEADLIGHT Filed April 6, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 WITNESS:

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UNETED STATES GEORGE W. DRAPER, OF BRISTOL, CONNECTICUT.

HEADLIGHT.

Application filed April 6, 1925. Serial No. 21,105.

This invention relates to improvements in head lamps for motor driven vehicles by me December 26, 192% and bearing the Scrial No. 758,237.

An object of the present invention is to improve and simplify certain features of the lamp disclosed in the application above noted and to this end provides novel means for mounting and securing a reflector within the lamp casing, the said means acting to also retain a deflector plate and apron so that the latter together with the reflector may be securely held in place by the lens retaining means of the lamp the construction permitting of ease in assembling and providing an eflicient non-rattling head lamp.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a lamp which includes a novel lens holding and easing closing door, together with novel means for securely holding the door in closed position.

With the. above and other objects in view, the invention further includes the following novel features and details of construction to be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and point-ed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of a head lamp constructed in accordance with the invention.

Figure Figure 1.

Figure is a section taken substantially on the line 33 of Figure 2, the section being on a reduced scale.

Figure at is an elevation of the lamp lining removed from the casing.

Figure 5 is a front elevation showing a modified form of the invention.

Figure 6 is a fragmentary side view of the form of the invention shown in Figure 5.

Figure 7 is an enlarged fragmentary section taken substantially on the line 7-7 of Figure 6.

Referring to the drawings in detail wherein like characters of reference denote corresponding part-s, the reference character 10 indicates a lamp casing which may he made of any suitable material and which may be cylindrical as shown in Figures 1 to at of the drawings, or of a rectangular form as shown in Figures 5 and 6. This casing has 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of its front provided with a lens 11 and the latter may be held in place by any suitable means, such for example as a ring 12 which carries a gasket 13 for contact with the outer face of the lens 11. Retaining screws 1 1 may be utilized to securely hold the ring in place.

Located within the casing 10 is a reflector 15, the latter extending from the top of the casing adjacent the rear wall thereof, downwardly and forwardly to the forward lower edge of the casing so as to provide a concave reflecting surface. The rear edge of the reflector 15 bears against a stop or flange 16 secured within the casing and has its lower edge provides with a downwardly extending tongue 17 which enters a groove provided in the block 18. the latter being rigid with the bottom vof the casing. This block may be provided with a threaded socket to receive one of the retaining screws 141.

Bearing against the front edge of the refiector 15 is a lining 19. This lining is shaped to conform to the shape of the casing and its rear edge conforms to the shape of the reflector 15 with which it-engages. This reflector engaging edge of the lining is rolled or provided with a reinforcing wire 20. Extending across the forward upper edge of the lining 19 is an apron 21. This apron eX- tends downward for an appreciable distance and has its lower edge connected to the top of the lining by an upwardly extending rearwardly curved plate 22. The plate 22 and apron21 are located in front of and extend below a lamp 23. This lamp is carried by a lamp socket 2 1 which extends through the reflector 15 and may receive its current through a conductor wire 25 which extents through an insulated bushing 26.

Extending around the edge of the lining 19 and across the lower edge of the apron 21 is a compressible gasket 27, the said gasket bearing against the inner face of the lens 11.

In assembling the lamp, the reflector is placed in position and the lining 19, apron 21 and plate 22 which are constructed as a unit, are placed within the casing against the reflector. The lens is then secured in place by the ring 12, the lens bearing against the gasket 27 and forcing the lining 19 inward against the reflector so that the parts are securely held in place and objectionable rattling prevented.

If desired the casing may be substantially in form as illustrated in Figures 5 and 6 of the drawings and the lens 11 may he carried h a door 28. This door l as extending from its opposite side edges flanges 29 and 30, the first mentioned tlangre being hinged to the :asing by means of a hinge 31. The flange 30 is provided with an opening for the p "'tage of the shank of a hook 32, the inner end of which engages ore a lag 33 extending; from the casing 10. The outer end of the hook has threaded thereon a binding nut ill: which bears against the flange 30 so to reinorahly hold the door in closed posiion. The door provided with an openne $1.3 tor the PilSStlgG ot' the nys oi light aid the upper edge oi" this opening is dispoaed helow the lamp within the easing so that tl e light opening in this form of the invention as well as in the form previously deserihed is ranged below the lamp and at the lower part of the using.

The invention is susceptible of various changes in its; form, proportions and minor details oi (Ol'lSlll'atfll()ll and the right is herein reserved to make such changes as properly i'all within the scope ot' the appended claims.

l-lavin e' desrrihed the invention what is claimed is:-

.l,. A head lamp comprising lens therefor, a retaining ring segmental portion disposed in adranee 0t and extending an appreciable distance downwardly on the lens, a curved reflector, a lin inn l'orined in one piece to conform to the shape of the *asing and said reflector and a. easing, at including a positioned forwardly of said reflector, said linin iii-eluding an apron depending from the forward edge thereof and terminating in a plane with the lower edge of the segmental portion of the ring, and arranged at the opposite side oil the lens. a curved plate conilQ-(lilllgf the apron with the upper portion of the lining, and an electric light. bulb supported by the reflector and direetly behind said plate.

2. A. head lamp comprising a easing, a. lens therefor, a hlock seemed to the bottom oi the easing and arranged within the latter direct ly hehind said lens. a retaining ring; "for the lens eml'iraeing said caning, said hloek haril'ig a groove in its upper surface, a lastening element securing; the ring to the lower portion of the block, a curved reflector arnnged within the :asing, and including a tiange adapted to he received by said groove a stop plan depending from the upper portion or" the easing and against which the adjacent: end (it the retleetor engages, a lining shaped to eonlorni to the Hhlllg and reflector, and ha vine its lower end positioned between the hloek and the lens, an apron -arried by the lining and depending therefrom to cover an ppreeiahle portion of the upper part of said lens, a eurved plate supported by the l'ning and said apron, and an electric light h nlh supported by the relleetor directly beiind said eurred plate.

in testimony whereof I atlix my signature.

GEORGE W. DRAPER. 

